Potential volunteer participants were mailed a letter with an information statement or informed consent form (depending on the local Institutional Review Board requirements), and a prepaid "opt-out" postcard.
Archival tissues were obtained from the Department of Pathology, Royal Women's Hospital, from women who presented for surgery after the provision of a participant information statement and with informed consent.
Normal ovaries were removed from patients undergoing surgery as a result of suspicious ultrasound images, palpable abdominal masses and/or family history after the provision of a participant information statement and with informed consent.
Resected tissues not required for clinical analyses were obtained from patients who presented for surgery at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, after the provision of a participant information statement and only with informed consent.
The IRB granted approval for an information statement in lieu of formal informed consent.
Eligible patients will be offered participation in the project, provided with the information statement about the research, and written informed consent will be obtained.
The research officer will give participants an information statement regarding the study and ask for written informed consent before data collection begins.
Informed consent was obtained from volunteer participants using a standard information statement and consent form.
Participants will provide informed consent online (by selecting a checkbox that appears after the Information Statement and before the baseline questionnaire), before any study procedures occur.
Patients will be informed about the research by their treating doctor and provided with a study information statement.
From the information statement, Teavana's bankers reached out to five financial and five strategic companies before the announcement, but no one bit.
